Chris Krupinski

Chris is a Dolphin Fellow of the American Watercolor Society, Gold Signature member of the National Watercolor Society, Transparent Watercolor Society of America (Distinguished Master), Watercolor West (Master), and Allied Artists, to name a few. She is the recipient of over 250 national and regional awards including the top award in the 2018, 2015, and 2013 Adirondacks Exhibition of American Watercolors, first in Watercolor West 2016, first in Alabama Watercolor Society 2018, Best in Show in North East Watercolor Society in 2019 and an award winner in the 2022, 2021, 2015 and 2013 American Watercolor Society Exhibitions. She won the top award in Splash 2025 (the best of watercolor sponsored by Artist’s Magazine). Chris has been published in major watercolor publications and has been a featured artist in numerous leading national art magazines.

Internationally, Chris was selected as one of the “master painters” for the Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary International Watermedia Masters, November 2007, 2010, and 2012 in Nanjing, China. Chris was also selected for the Shanghai Zhujiajiao International Watercolour Biennial Exhibition in 2012. A painting was selected for the 2013-2014 Shenzhen Watercolour Biennial. Chris was an invitee to the 2018 Silk Road International Arts Festival at the Shaanxi Provincial Museum of Fine Arts, Xi’an, Shaanxi, P.R. China. She was invited to participate in the IWS biennial in Cappadocia, Turkey in 2014. Two paintings were shown in the 2014 Thailand Watermedia Exposition and two in the Taiwan 2016 International Exhibition. She has exhibited in the invitational Watercolor Exhibition, Greece in 2014-present. She was invited to hang a painting in the Watercolor Masters Exhibition in Gouda, Holland in 2019 and 2023. Chris also was invited to hang  paintings in the International Exhibition “World of High Watercolor”, Moscow, Russia in 2019 and 2021. She was invited to exhibit watercolors in Monza In Acqurello (Italy), the “Festival Internationale Dell’ Acquarello” in 2020 and 2021.